Spiral Dynamics History Mega thread

[ArchangelG]

This list of historical developments and events, from spiraldynamicsnl, is amazing. Unfortunately it only covers Europe and the Us to some extent. 

It would be great to have a similar list of the rest of the world, especially Asia(middle east, China, India).

Please share any historical period or event along with stage color!

 

Blue

Highlights:
Feudal Middle Ages, rise of cities and forming of nations and countries.

 

Orange

Highlights:
Renaissance, Golden Age, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, post-war reconstruction after World War II and the global development in ICT.

Green

Highlights:
Romance, existentialism, flower power, societal renewal in the sixties and the New Age movement.

[Rilles]

could be interesting, ill be back with something

[DocWatts]

Here are some well known worldwide historical figures:

Red :
Julius Ceaser. Ghengis Khan. Hernan Cortez. Moctezuma II. Augusto Pinochet. Joseph Stalin. Saddam Hussein. Donald Trump.

Blue : 
Marcus Aurelius. Thomas Aquanus. Karl Marx. Fidel Castro. Nikita Khrushchev. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Ho Chi Minh.

Orange :
Adam Smith. Immanuel Kant. Winston Churchill. The American Founding Fathers.

Green :
Martin Luther King Jr. Mahatma Gandhi. Nelson Mandella. Mikhail Gorbachev. Pope Francis. George Orwell.

Yellow :
Albert Einstein. Niels Bohr. Noam Chomsky. Bertrand Russel.

Edited December 23, 2020 by DocWatts

[Carl-Richard]

Red: advent of agriculture and complex division of labour lead to increased availability of resources, questioning of collectivist tribal values, population growth and areal expansion, conflict between tribes, and the first empires started to form.

Edited December 25, 2020 by Carl-Richard

[DocWatts]

10 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

Mikhail Gorbachev was not Green, and Marxism is not only Blue, it can be Green. As for the man himself, we don't necessarily know what color he was.

As to Gorbachev, Green seems like a fair characterization for him because of his sincere attempts to bring democratization and progressive reform to an outdated authoritarian system (I believe he saw the Scandinavian Social Democracies, with Finland in particular, as an aspirational model for what a democratized Soviet Union might look like). I do know that he's not popular in Russia, due to the unintended side effects of his policies, and the economic chaos and lawlessness that followed in the aftermath of the unintended collapse of the Soviet Union. It's not like Green ideas are immune to failure or unintended consequences.

Also the guy is still alive today, and his political advocacy includes support for social democracy, international cooperation on issues such as climate change, and nuclear disarmament.

As for Karl Marx, I think it can be helpful to draw a distinction between the man himself, and the numerous interpretations of his philosophy over the past two centuries. Reason for this is that the actual practice of his ideas can range from all the way from Red (Lenin, Stalin) to Green (which is more representative of how Marxism is pursued within a democratic context in our current day) . As for the man himself, I see aspects of both Blue and Orange in his representation of dialectic materialism, with perhaps even a tiny tinge of Yellow due to the influence of Hegel on his work (the Hegelian Dialectic has some overlap with Systems Thinking). I'll definitely agree that there's some ambiguity as far as mapping him onto the SD model, so I won't belabor the point.

Edited December 26, 2020 by DocWatts